When, in the last paroxysm, you knelt beside her with your head down upon her hand and in her grasp, and as I approached her, her eyes, which feebly threw up the film then rapidly closing over them, shot out a most angry glare of hatred and reproof; while her lips parted--I could see, though she could articulate no word--with involutions which indicated the curse that she could not speak." "Think not so, I pray you.

She had much cause to curse, and often would she have done so, but for my sake she did not.

She would call me a poor fool, that so loved the one who had brought misery and shame to all of us; but her malediction was arrested, and she said it not.

Oh, no! she forgave you--I know she did--heard you not the words which she uttered at the last ?" "Yes, yes--but no matter.

We must now talk of other things, Ellen; and first of all, you must know, then, I am about to be married." Had a bolt from the crossbow at that moment penetrated into her heart, the person he addressed could not have been more transfixed than at this speech.